Makiko Watanabe

Tamaran Hill

Hinako comes across the novel “Tamaran Hill” and immediately starts reading it with delight, as “tamaran” (intolerable) happens to be…

6 months ago

Haw

Tamio Akanishi works at a public office in Yokohama. He is going through one of the worst periods of his…

6 months ago

The Midnight Maiden War

I is a university, who came to Tokyo from his hometown. I lives alone and doesn't have friends or a…

6 months ago

Or Utopia

Japan, 2024. The Earth is dominated by a mysteriously giant creature (That Thing) and the group of 12 survivors has…

6 months ago

Desert of Namibia

Desert of Namibia follows a bipolar young woman who burns the candle at both ends. A portrait of an unidealized…

6 months ago

Happyend

In a near-future Japanese city bracing for a devastating earthquake, a group of teenage friends navigate personal struggles and fractured…

6 months ago

Family

Based on the comic by Tsuchida Seiki, inspired by the artist's own life experience, this film portrays the loss and…

6 months ago

Small, Slow But Steady

A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing…

6 months ago

Come and Go

Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble drama by Japan-based, Malaysia-born filmmaker Lim…

6 months ago

Voices in the Wind

Eight years after the devastating tsunami, the wounds it left in Japan have still not healed. In her touching search…

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The Asadas!

Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami,…

6 months ago